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What I’ve noticed is that code is the only medium of communication that is non-ambiguous. Designers, product people, stakeholders, etc, all use ambiguous medium
by sktrdie 6y ago
What I’ve noticed is that code is the only medium of communication that is non-ambiguous. Designers, product people, stakeholders, etc, all use ambiguous mediums. It’s impossible to understand just how pedantic and explicit you need to be when writing code versus, say, giving your human colleagues instructions.
So it's 0% ambiguity for code. 100% ambiguity for the rest. In other words, communicating with the computer is overly pedantic, and code bares all the frustration. Can we make it more fair? 70-30 perhaps?
Rather than concentrating on mediums that help with communication (as this post mentions: Design Docs, TLA+, comments…) I want a new medium that allows me share the burden of overscrupulousity with the rest of the people in my team, and not just developers.
- webmaven 6y agoPseudocode, perhaps?